National News

2:26 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A national battle over redistricting is advancing in more states

2:24 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Shutdown

2:19 PM on Wednesday, October 29

According to court documents, Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois has been indicted along with five others over blocking vehicles during protests outside a federal immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago

1:53 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Attorneys for Sami Hamdi, a British political commentator being held by immigration authorities in California, are challenging his detention in court

12:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year

12:36 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Authorities are searching for three monkeys that escaped when the truck that was transporting them overturned on a Mississippi highway but it remains unclear who owns the monkeys, who was transporting them and where they were being taken

10:38 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Sudan's paramilitary forces have reportedly killed hundreds at a hospital, including patients, after seizing the provincial capital of North Darfur

9:24 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Hurricane Melissa has caused severe flooding and storm surge in Cuba after leaving Jamaica with power outages and killing at least 40 people in Haiti

8:35 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The U.S. confirms it will reduce its troop presence on NATO’s borders with Ukraine

7:06 AM on Wednesday, October 29

A Paris prosecutor says two suspects in the Louvre jewel heist have admitted their involvement in the theft

2:20 AM on Wednesday, October 29

U.S. stocks are edging back from their records after the head of the Federal Reserve warned that more cuts to interest rates are not guaranteed

2:18 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory

1:29 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

12:06 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Two Russian mobsters have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison for agreeing to try to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad for $500,000

9:06 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Relief organizations are mobilizing to help across the Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history

8:18 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The United States and South Korea have advanced trade talks after negotiations and ceremonies that included the presentation of a gold medal and crown to President Donald Trump

6:54 PM on Tuesday, October 28

5:13 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for a second time this year as it seeks to shore up economic growth and hiring even as inflation stays elevated

12:49 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The death toll is growing as Hurricane Melissa crosses Cuba and heads for the Bahamas a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record

4:31 PM on Sunday, October 26